2019-09-15T12:23:32Zhttps://digital.csic.es/dspace-oai/requestoai:digital.csic.es:10261/574982016-02-17T06:06:23Zcom_10261_13com_10261_8col_10261_26600925njm 22002777a 4500dcPueyo, SalvadorauthorJovani, Rogerauthor2006Vandermeer and Perfecto (Reports, 17 February 2006, p. 1000) maintain that a mutualist ant disrupts the power law distribution of scale insect abundances. However, reanalysis of the data reveals that ants cause an increase in the range of the power law and modify its exponent. We present a tentative, but more realistic, model that is suitable for quantitative predictions.SCIENCE 313: 1739c- 1739c (2006)http://hdl.handle.net/10261/5749810.1126/science.1129595.Comment on 'A keystone mutualism drives pattern in a power function'.